Honesty Quotes

Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.

Treat the world the way you want to be treated.

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Writing, for me, means humility. It’s a process that involves fear and doubt, especially if you’re writing honestly.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I think it requires a bit of honesty, Swan Lake.

It's the honesty you apply to your playing that makes music enjoyable. The style of the music has little to do with it. It's only honesty makes it beautiful.

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.

When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.

Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Leading with integrity is embracing honesty! We should always use our weaknesses to point others to Christ's strength.

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.

When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters.

Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

People have sought to adjust the truth to the hour instead of adjusting the hour to the truth, and in diplomacy they have endeavoured to bring about as much of the reality as they deem wise.

Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can.

I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add: 'All the time.'

Callie always said Luce was incapable of brutal honesty and that was why she got herself stuck in so many crappy situations with guys whom she should have just told no.

Success doesn’t count unless you earn it fair and square.

Integrating the mind is the essence of life. Decide you will always say and do only what you feel is right. Then, you will come to tremendous clarity and conviction in the inner and outer worlds.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

Shrewdness in public life all over the world is always honored, while honesty in public men is generally attributed to dumbness and is seldom rewarded.

What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.

Honesty is very sexy.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

Every man should make up his mind that if he expects to succeed, he must give an honest return for the other man's dollar.

Nice is a pallid virtue. Not like honesty or courage or perseverance. On the other hand, in a nation notably lacking in civility, there is much to be said for nice.

Being trustworthy requires: Doing the right thing. And doing things right.

One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.

We all need friends with whom we can speak of our deepest concerns, and who do not fear to speak the truth in love to us.

My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'

Honesty is all you need.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.